"""Vacation"", in 1962. A number of Francis' singles continued to reach the top 40 in the US Hot 100 through the mid-1960s, with her last top-40 entry being 1964's ""Be Anything (but Be Mine)"". Despite her declining success on the Hot 100, Francis remained a top concert draw, and her singles – now following a more mature style – were charting on the top quarter of"" Billboard's"" Adult Contemporary (AC) Charts and sometimes even reached ""Billboard's"" Country Charts. Therefore, Francis enjoyed lasting chart success in the US until her contract with MGM Records ran out in 1969. In 1965, Connie"
"Connie's Greatest Hits Connie's Greatest Hits is a studio album by U. S. Entertainer Connie Francis. The album features the songs from Francis' most successful singles from her breakthrough hit ""Who's Sorry Now?"" in early 1958 up to the date of the album's release in November 1959. The album was repackaged with a new cover design and re-released in March 1962. In 2012, ""Connie's Greatest Hits"" was re-released by Hallmark Records in their ""Original Recordings"" series, with ""Who's Sorry Now"" replaced by ""Robot Man"", ""Frankie"" replaced by ""Valentino"" and ""Lipstick on Your Collar"" replaced by ""It Would Be Worth It"""
"Connie's Greatest Hits Connie's Greatest Hits is a studio album by U. S. Entertainer Connie Francis. The album features the songs from Francis' most successful singles from her breakthrough hit ""Who's Sorry Now?"" in early 1958 up to the date of the album's release in November 1959. The album was repackaged with a new cover design and re-released in March 1962. In 2012, ""Connie's Greatest Hits"" was re-released by Hallmark Records in their ""Original Recordings"" series, with ""Who's Sorry Now"" replaced by ""Robot Man"", ""Frankie"" replaced by ""Valentino"" and ""Lipstick on Your Collar"" replaced by ""It Would Be Worth It"""
"film ""The Craft"", and the 1999 film ""Jawbreaker"". This suit was also dismissed. Francis also sued the producers of ""Jawbreaker"" for using her song ""Lollipop Lips,"" which is heard during a sex scene. Connie Francis Connie Francis (born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, December 12, 1937) is an American pop singer and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s, Francis remained a top concert draw. Despite several severe interruptions in her career, she is still active as a recording and performing artist. Francis was born to"
"wanted to record. Francis' first autobiographical book, ""For Every Young Heart"", was published in 1963. On July 3 that same year, she played a Royal Command Performance for Queen Elizabeth II at the Alhambra Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland. During the height of the Vietnam War in 1967, Connie Francis performed for US troops. Francis recalls this story frequently during the introduction to ""God Bless America"" at her live concerts. Due to changing trends in the early and mid-1960s, namely the British Invasion, Francis' chart success on ""Billboard's"" Hot 100 began to wane after 1963. She had her final top-ten hit,"
"Who's Sorry Now? (album) Who's Sorry Now? is the first studio album recorded by U. S. Entertainer Connie Francis. By 1957, none of Connie Francis' first nine solo singles had charted. Her duet single with Marvin Rainwater, ""The Majesty Of Love"", b/w ""You, my Darlin' You"" had only been a minor hit, peaking at # 93 (though it sold over one million copies). As a result of these failures, the managers at MGM Records had decided not to renew her contract after the last scheduled single release. During what was supposed to be her last recording session for MGM Records"
"to the mode of remaking traditional pop songs which had provided her with most of her early Top Ten hits, although in the 1960s she had abandoned that formula, with the exception of ""Together"", a #8 hit in 1961. ""Be Anything (but Be Mine)"" did not return Francis to the Top Ten, but did maintain her recent profile as a moderate chart presence with a #25 peak on ""Billboard"" Hot 100, where it would mark Francis' final appearance in the Top 40. In Australia Francis' ""Be Anything (but Be Mine)"" charted at #48. The song has also been recorded by"
"Connie Francis Connie Francis (born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, December 12, 1937) is an American pop singer and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s, Francis remained a top concert draw. Despite several severe interruptions in her career, she is still active as a recording and performing artist. Francis was born to an Italian-American family in the Italian Down Neck, or Ironbound, neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, the first child of George Franconero, Sr., and Ida Franconero (née Ferrari-di Vito), spending her first years in"
"which became a ""The New York Times"" bestseller. However, even though her 1982 recording ""There's Still a Few Good Love Songs Left in Me"" brought Francis her last notation on the country charts, several songs never made it beyond the status of being recorded. Many songs from that time, such as Francis' versions of classics such as ""Speak Softly, Love"" and ""Break It to Me Gently,"" and original songs such as ""Blue Orleans"" are still awaiting their official first-time release. In 1989, Connie Francis resumed her recording and performing career again. For Malaco Records, Francis recorded a double album entitled"
"The Exciting Connie Francis The Exciting Connie Francis is a studio album recorded by American pop singer Connie Francis. It is the second album Francis cut for MGM Records. After her breakthrough in early 1958 with her single ""Who's Sorry Now?"", a rock 'n' roll oriented version of the 1923 standard, and a subsequent album of the same title, Francis chose to take a more adult approach to her second album. For ""The Exciting Connie Francis"", she chose twelve American standards. Francis clearly marked the album as a concept album by dividing it into two sections with different moods: Side"
"on October 5, 1944 and lasted 10 weeks on the chart, peaking at #3. This recording was paired on a single with ""It Had to Be You,"" a #4 hit, producing a big two-sided hit. ""Together"" became a Top Ten hit in the summer of 1961 via a recording by Connie Francis cut in New York City on 3 June 1961 with Cliff Parman acting as arranger and conductor. After focusing on new material for her recent singles releases, Francis with ""Together"" reverted to the mode of remaking traditional pop songs which had provided her with her biggest hits in"
"""Where the Hits Are"", containing re-recordings of 18 of her biggest hits, as well as six classics of yesteryear Francis had always wanted to record songs such as ""Are You Lonesome Tonight?"" or ""Torn Between Two Lovers"". In 1992, a medley of remixed versions of her biggest German hits charted in Germany. This single, entitled ""Jive, Connie"", ended up among the top-ten best-selling singles of the year, which brought Connie Francis the prestigious R.SH-Gold award for the ""Best Comeback of the Year"" from R.SH (short for ""Radio Schleswig-Holstein""), back then one of Germany's most important private radio stations. A subsequent"
"(number 9). Following another idea from her father, Francis traveled to London in August 1959 to record an Italian album at EMI's famous Abbey Road Studios. Entitled ""Connie Francis Sings Italian Favorites"", the album was released in November 1959. It soon entered the album charts where it remained for 81 weeks, peaking at number 4. To this day, it is still Francis' most successful album. ""Mama,"" the single taken from the album, reached number 8 in the United States and number 2 in the United Kingdom. Following this success, Francis recorded seven more albums of ""favorites"" between 1960 and 1964,"
"Francis was voted the ""Best Female Vocalist"" by ""American Bandstand"" viewers. As Connie Francis explains at each of her concerts, she began searching for a new hit immediately after the success of ""Who's Sorry Now?"", since MGM Records had renewed her contract. After the relative failure of the follow-up singles ""I'm Sorry I Made You Cry"" (which stalled at No. 36) and ""Heartaches"" (failing to chart at all), Francis met Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, who sang a number of ballads they had written for her. After a few hours, Francis began writing in her diary while the songwriters played"
"Frankie Avalon fans. ""Lipstick on Your Collar"" had only been intended to serve as B-side to ""Frankie"" but MGM Records and Francis herself were so pleased with the completed recording of ""Lipstick on Your Collar"" that the session's tracks were both equally promoted: the result was the most successful double-sided hit of Francis' career, as ""Lipstick on Your Collar"" - the first uptempo Connie Francis single to reach the US Top Ten - peaked at No. 5 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in July 1959, while ""Frankie"" peaked a No. 9. In the summer of 1959 ""Lipstick on Your Collar"""
"Francisco. She appeared in concert in Manila, the Philippines, on Valentine's Day 2008. In 2010, she also appeared at the Las Vegas Hilton with Dionne Warwick, a show billed as ""Eric Floyd's Grand Divas of Stage"". In December 2017, Francis released her most recent autobiography, ""Among My Souvenirs."" While her singles were mostly kept in the then-current sounds of the day such as rock 'n' roll, novelty songs, the twist, torch ballads, or the girl group sound created by Brill Building alumni Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, Francis' albums represented her in a variety of styles, ranging from R&B, vocal"
"her English-language single of ""Forget Domani"" as released in Japan where that single charted as high as number 13. On May 9, 1967 Francis recorded the Spanish rendering of ""Forget Domani"": ""Olvidemos el Mañana"", which appeared on her Spanish-language album ""Grandes Exitos del Cine de los Años 60"". ""Forget Domani"" was the second 1965 Connie Francis single to vie on the Hot 100 with a rival version by a male vocalist: on the Hot 100 dated March 6, 1965 ""For Mama"" had been a chart debut at both number 86 for Francis and at number 88 for Jerry Vale with"
"Elson with Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks recorded the song for an episode of the HBO television series ""Boardwalk Empire"". The song was a major hit in 1958 for American singer Connie Francis, who took her cover of the song to number 4 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart and charted at number one in the UK Singles Chart. It spent 22 weeks on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100, her single of greatest longevity, and became her first of eight gold records. ""Who's Sorry Now?"" was recorded in 1957 by Connie Francis, and since then the song has become closely"
"Who's Sorry Now (album) Who's Sorry Now is the third solo studio album released by American country music singer, Marie Osmond. It was her last solo album released under MGM Records. The album's lead single was the title track, a cover of Connie Francis' Top 10 Pop hit from 1958. Osmond's version reached the Top 30 on the Billboard Country Chart, the Top 40 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, and also was a minor on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. It was the album's only single. The album includes additional covers of songs by Pat Boone (""Love Letters in"
"A is filled with songs differing between mid-tempo and up-tempo, while Side B consists solely of ballads. The album was released in March 1959 on MGM Records 12"" Album E-3761 (mono edition) and SE-3761 (stereo edition). It was repackaged and re-released in March 1962. The Exciting Connie Francis The Exciting Connie Francis is a studio album recorded by American pop singer Connie Francis. It is the second album Francis cut for MGM Records. After her breakthrough in early 1958 with her single ""Who's Sorry Now?"", a rock 'n' roll oriented version of the 1923 standard, and a subsequent album of"
"reach #90 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 (#87 in ""Cash Box""). ""I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter"" made its album debut on ""The Very Best of Connie Francis"" compilation album release in September 1963. In the UK ""I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter"" spent a single week in the Top 50 appearing at #48 on the chart dated December 22, 1962 marking Francis' final UK chart appearance for almost three years. ""I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter"" reached #1 in Hong Kong in February 1963; also in early 1963 the track reached #9 in Australia, to become Francis' final Top"
"Subsequently, ""Paradiso"" became one of the biggest hits of the year 1962 with cover versions in Tu' mir nicht weh Tu' mir nicht weh is the eighth German single recorded by U. S. entertainer Connie Francis. The single's A-side is a German cover version of Francis' U. S. # 1 hit ""Don't Break the Heart That Loves You, which Francis also recorded in The single's B-Side was ""Paradiso"", a song written especially in German for Francis. ""Tu' mir nicht weh"" peaked at # 2 of the German charts, while ""Paradiso"" peaked at # 1, marking this record as Francis first"
"hit, reaching #14 on the ""Billboard Magazine"" Hot Country Songs chart and #23 on the Canadian ""RPM"" Country Tracks chart, becoming her final Top 20 hit. The second single, ""Lovin' You Baby"" reached the ""Billboard"" Country Top 40 at #34, becoming her final Top 40 single. The third single, ""They'll Never Be Another for Me"" peaked only at #68 on the Billboard Country Chart. The album itself ""stiffed,"" according to Stephen Thomas Erlewine, meaning it did not chart the ""Billboard"" Top Country Albums chart. New Horizons (Connie Smith album) New Horizons is the thirty first studio album by American country"
"returned to the recording studio in 1981 to cut """"Comme ci, comme ça"""", and ""I'm Me Again"". The latter became the title track of a subsequent album which featured the aforementioned new songs, as well as previously unreleased material from the 1950s and 1960s. ""I'm Me Again"" became Francis' last single to chart on the AC charts. Both the single and the album were Francis' last original releases on MGM Records; Polydor bought the label in 1976 and discontinued it in 1982. In 1981, further tragedy struck Francis when her brother, George Franconero, Jr., with whom she was very close,"
"at No.1, making it Francis third and final chart-topper. The Connie Francis recording also went to number one on the easy listening charts. ""Don't Break the Heart That Loves You"" charted in the UK in April 1962 without paralleling its US chart impact; rather ""Don't Break the Heart That Loves You"" became Francis' first single to miss the UK Top 30 with peak position of No.39. The track reached No.1 in New Zealand - where it would be Francis' last hit - and No.18 in Australia. Following the success in the US, Francis recorded ""Don't Break the Heart That Loves"
"# 2 and a UK # 4 for her in early 1959), Connie Francis was still considered too much of a rock 'n' roll singer to be also accepted as a performer of adult contemporary material, hence the albums failed to make an impression on the charts. The album was re-packaged with a new cover design and re-released in March 1962. My Thanks to You My Thanks To You is a studio album recorded by US Entertainer Connie Francis. The album features songs which had been popular on both sides of the Atlantic between the 1920s and the 1940s. It"
"100 peak as high as the #23 peak of ""If My Pillow Could Talk"". In ""Cash Box"" ""If My Pillow Could Talk"" reached #16 a peak matched by only one of Francis' subsequent chartings: ""Blue Winter"" in 1964 (#24 in ""Billboard""). ""If My Pillow Could Talk"" was not a widespread international success for Francis: the track did reach #2 in Hong Kong and #30 in Australia. The song was one of the few Connie Francis hits which the singer remade in French, that rendering entitled ""Oh, oui! J'en ai réve"" being recorded July 24 1963. Francis also recorded a Japanese"
"Francis' recording contract consisted of ten solo singles and one duet single. Though success had finally seemed to come with ""The Majesty of Love"", Francis was informed by MGM Records that her contract would not be renewed after her last solo single. Francis considered a career in medicine and was about to accept a four-year scholarship offered at New York University. At what was to have been her final recording session for MGM on October 2, 1957, she recorded a cover version of the 1923 song ""Who's Sorry Now?"", written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. Francis has said that"
"Tu' mir nicht weh Tu' mir nicht weh is the eighth German single recorded by U. S. entertainer Connie Francis. The single's A-side is a German cover version of Francis' U. S. # 1 hit ""Don't Break the Heart That Loves You, which Francis also recorded in The single's B-Side was ""Paradiso"", a song written especially in German for Francis. ""Tu' mir nicht weh"" peaked at # 2 of the German charts, while ""Paradiso"" peaked at # 1, marking this record as Francis first double-sided single in Germany of which the B-side scored better on the charts than the A-side."
"together with her preceding release, ""Connie Francis Sings Spanish & Latin American Favorites"", and subsequent album ""More Italian Favorites"". It was the last album that could not be completed during the July sessions, and final tracks by Connie were cut in September 1960. Francis, who had grown up in an Italian-Jewish neighbourhood in Newark, spoke Yiddish fluently and was familiar with songs in Hebrew which prompted her to record the songs either entirely in Yiddish or Hebrew or bilingually with a few lines sung in English. The album was originally released in October 1960 under the catalogue numbers E-3869 (mono"
"Foolish Heart"" and ""Nevertheless"" as well as the 1956 hit ballad ""Ivory Tower."" Released that November, Francis' ""Jealous Heart"" peaked at No. 47 in January 1966: it was ranked substantially higher in both ""Cash Box"" and ""Record World"" at respectively No. 29 and No. 25. In all three trades Francis never had another single reach the Top 60. Her version of ""Jealous Heart"" was also her last Easy Listening Top 10 hit at No. 10. ""Jealous Heart"" was the last Connie Francis single to rank on the UK charts reaching No. 44 in January 1966. Also in early 1966 Francis'"
"Francis started to record compositions of German origin regularly until her contract with MGM Records ended in 1969. Werner Scharfenberger and Fini Busch as well as Scharfenberger and his second songwriting partner, Kurt Feltz, became Francis' favorite songwriting teams for the German market although she also recorded songs written by other composers. Francis also continued to record German cover versions of her U. S. hits but less frequently than before. Although it failed to chart, the single's B-side, ""Immer und überall"", was included in 1964 on Francis' album ""Connie Francis sings German Favorites"", a compilation of Francis' greatest German hits"
"Connie Francis Sings Spanish and Latin American Favorites Connie Francis Sings Spanish and Latin American Favorites is a studio album of Spanish and Latin American songs recorded by American entertainer Connie Francis. After the success of her 1959 album ""Connie Francis Sings Italian Favorites"" (which remained on the albums chart for 81 weeks and peaked at No. 4), Francis released more albums which appealed to immigrants in the United States. In July 1960, Francis was in Hollywood for the interior shots of her first motion picture ""Where the Boys Are"" which made it impossible for her to record the album"